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@nprofile1q... hmm ... I think haskell can. statements are monadic or applicative expressions in a do block. and you can compute new kinds of block statements with BlockArguments too.

i'd also say forth counts. it's not unusual for most of the conditional and looping constructs to be computed from some much more primitive forward and backward [conditional] branches.

but i guess you meant something else that would exclude these examples?
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"should new C projects be started in 2026"

all software projects are C projects, unless they are going out of their way to avoid C by being bare metal projects, or they are targeting a virtual machine (which itself is a C project, but it purposefully removes any correlation / contact with the outer environment) ... which is the same thing, since nobody writes for bare metal these days without targeting a virtual machine first.

as long as I have to use C based FFI it's a C project.
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i wish that formal semantics of programming languages were more widely known and appreciated.

because it seems everyone has opinions on PL syntax but nobody ever bothers to learn about semantics.
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the "colors your screen can't show you" article was fascinating but then you get to the end and the author says they used Gemini model to extract wavelength data from figures in papers? huh?? i feel betrayed.
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the main problem with being me is not being able to read "the elder scrolls" without thinking "he he they sure do". there are other issues but this is the main one
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last week, anti-trans laws were passed in Portugal.

parliament revoked the 2018 law that gave us self-determination of legal gender and change of name.

in addition they also passed UK-style censorship laws banning schools from talking about gender, and UK-style laws banning the prescription of puberty blockers and hormones to trans children.

this is the first time Portugal has taken away human rights since it became a democracy in the 1970s.
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everywhere on earth should use the same time but have every day be 25 hours long so we rotate which part of the world has the "correct" time.
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the secret to being a 10x developer is not to pretend that you are a 10x developer. you have to actually be a 10x developer. you have to embody it. you are a 10x developer. you are so good at coding, ten times better than the average developer. and yet. you are here. you do the job of ten people. but you are only paid for one. as a self-respecting 10x developer, there is only one thing for you to do. you need to leave. you need to quit. become something else. maybe a 10x carpenter. it's time
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